Part 1 of projectMy project I am now using is on a wiki that I have created. I am going to link parts of the wiki to a glogster or take inforamtion from the wiki and place it on the glog. I am using the wiki as a source of organization so that it is easier for me to see what I am working with and everything is in specific topics so it is more organized.
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Informative Research Product Organizer Draft 1
Research Topic: Schizophrenia

Focusing Statement: 1 in 100 people in the world suffer from schizophrenia, yet it is one of the least understood diseases in the world because of the mystery of how the mind works.

Essential Background Information for Introduction:
  • No cure
  • 1 in 100 effected
  • 5 different types
  • No exact reason why it occurs
  • Chronic illness
  • Negative and positive symptoms occur
  • 5 different types
  • Disorganized speech, delusions and hallucinations are common symptoms
  • Usually shows up in the late teens to early twenties
  • Treatable with meds

Potential Hook/Grabber (Story, anecdote, quote about your issue):

Topic 1: Childhood Schizophrenia
Explanation

January Schofield
Evidence/Quotes: one of the rarest cases ever seen, she is at age 7 at this point and was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a small child. The family knew that there was something different about her, and now know she has schizophrenia. She lives in a separate appartment from her brother because they fear she will hurt him.
Explanation treatments
Evidence/Quotes:
Tegretol, thorazine, lithium
Explanation life of a schizophrenic child
Evidence /Quotes: not many homes that take in mental patients will take in a 6 year old. The diagnosis for her took a long time, she spent 133 days at UCLA hospital for treatment. Not many places will take her because she requires long term care and she becomes very violent.

Topic 2: Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
Explanation Disorganized speech
Evidence/Quotes:
Words are out of place and order, not understandable, sometimes they even create their own types of languages.
Explanation Disorganized behavior
Evidence/Quotes:
May act “silly” or withdraw socially
Explanation Blunt or inappropriate emotional expression or response
Evidence /Quotes: Don’t show appropriate responses to things like deaths, or other people’s emotions.

Topic 3:
Types of schizophrenia
Explanation
Paranoid
Evidence/Quotes:
False beliefs, auditory hallucinations, and unaffected mood and cognitive functions
Explanation Residual
Evidence/Quotes:
Have at least one acute episode, continue to hae some negative symptoms
Explanation Catatonic
Evidence /Quotes:
Characterized by disturbances in movement, imitate movements or speech of other people. Patients are at risk for malnutrition, exhaustion, or self-injury..commonly associated with mood disorders
Undifferentiated
Positive and negative schizophrenia but don’t meet the fulll critearia for the paranoid disorganized or catatonic subtypes

Topic 4:
Life of a schizophrenic
Explanation

Treatments
Evidence/Quotes:

Mayn treatments are linked with medications, and many people with the disease are placed into mental care facilities.
Explanation lifestyle
Evidence/Quotes:
Many schizophrenics do have the support of a family member or an entire family. Some who do not may end up homeless or in mental hospitals. Many to become homeless and some like it.
Explanation
Socialization
Evidence /Quotes:
Many schizophrenics are very exiled from society and normally do not want to be around other people. They draw themselves away from others and normally stay in their own worlds and are very anti social. If treated these tendencies can go away but if not they will remain and the patient will stay away from people
Informative Research Product Organizer Draft 2

Research Topic: Schizophrenia

Focusing Statement:
1 in 100 people in the world suffer from schizophrenia, yet it is one of the least understood diseases in the world because of the mystery of how the mind works.

Essential Background Information for Introduction:
  • No cure
  • 1 in 100 effected
  • 5 different types
  • No exact reason why it occurs
  • Chronic illness
  • Negative and positive symptoms occur
  • 5 different types
  • Disorganized speech, delusions and hallucinations are common symptoms
  • Usually shows up in the late teens to early twenties
  • Treatable with meds

Potential Hook/Grabber (Story, anecdote, quote about your issue):

Topic 1: Definition of Schizophrenia
Explanation
Common disease
Evidence/Quotes:

1 in 100 people will come up with it, found in every race, culture and community
Explanation Ages
Evidence/Quotes:
Normally shows up from the age of 20- 25 in men and women and then in women also around age 45. It is very rare for a child to be diagnosed with schizophrenia
Explanation Meaning and founder
Evidence /Quotes:
dementia referring to intellectual deterioration and praecox to the fact that the symptoms first occur early in life
delusions, hallucinations, thought disorders, loss of boundaries between self and nonself, blunted or inappropriate emotional expressions, socially inappropriate behavior, loss of social interests, and deterioration in areas of functioning such as social relations, work, and self-care (annotation 10)
  • dementia praecox is the original name the disease was given by Emil Kraepelin
  • Eugen Blueler came up with the term Schizophrenia which means split personality in greek
(annotation 9)


Topic 2:
Types of schizophrenia
Explanation
Paranoid
Evidence/Quotes:
False beliefs, auditory hallucinations, and unaffected mood and cognitive functions
Explanation Residual
Evidence/Quotes:
Have at least one acute episode, continue to hae some negative symptoms
Explanation Catatonic
Evidence /Quotes:
Characterized by disturbances in movement, imitate movements or speech of other people. Patients are at risk for malnutrition, exhaustion, or self-injury..commonly associated with mood disorders
Undifferentiated
Positive and negative schizophrenia but don’t meet the fulll critearia for the paranoid disorganized or catatonic subtypes


Topic 3: Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
Explanation Disorganized speech
Evidence/Quotes:
Words are out of place and order, not understandable, sometimes they even create their own types of languages.
Explanation Disorganized behavior
Evidence/Quotes:
May act “silly” or withdraw socially
Explanation Blunt or inappropriate emotional expression or response
Evidence /Quotes: Don’t show appropriate responses to things like deaths, or other people’s emotions.
Topic 4:
Life of a schizophrenic
Explanation

Treatments
Evidence/Quotes:

Mayn treatments are linked with medications, and many people with the disease are placed into mental care facilities.
Explanation lifestyle
Evidence/Quotes:
Many schizophrenics do have the support of a family member or an entire family. Some who do not may end up homeless or in mental hospitals. Many to become homeless and some like it.
Explanation
Socialization
Evidence /Quotes:
Many schizophrenics are very exiled from society and normally do not want to be around other people. They draw themselves away from others and normally stay in their own worlds and are very anti social. If treated these tendencies can go away but if not they will remain and the patient will stay away from people



Explanation

January Schofield
Evidence/Quotes: one of the rarest cases ever seen, she is at age 7 at this point and was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a small child. The family knew that there was something different about her, and now know she has schizophrenia. She lives in a separate appartment from her brother because they fear she will hurt him.
Explanation treatments
Evidence/Quotes:
Tegretol, thorazine, lithium
Explanation life of a schizophrenic child
Evidence /Quotes: not many homes that take in mental patients will take in a 6 year old. The diagnosis for her took a long time, she spent 133 days at UCLA hospital for treatment. Not many places will take her because she requires long term care and she becomes very violent.



Topic 5: Treatment and therapies
Explanation
Medications
Evidence/Quotes:

Most commonly used as a physical treatment many different types of medications are used to treat different parts of the disease
Explanation
Physical Treatments
Evidence/Quotes:
Electro shock therapy and things such as that.
Explanation
Psychotherapy
Evidence /Quotes:
Not offen used because it isn’t seen as very affective